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Murali didn't take 800 wickets, those were run-outs

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Mission Singh Baddy at it again!:hysterical: Former India captain Bishan Singh Bedi, who never misses an opportunity to take a dig at Muttiah Muralitharan and Harbhajan Singh, has once again lashed out at the two premier off-spinners. "I called him (Murali) a javelin thrower. I can call him a shot-putter. People say that he has got 800 wickets. I would rather say that it's 800 run-outs!" said a sarcastic Bedi on Tuesday during a panel discussion at the RSD Summit on World Cricket, organised in the memory of late Raj Singh Dungarpur. "On one hand you have Shane Warne who is a magician and then you have Muralitharan on the other hand. It's total shambles. And Harbhajan Singh is no different," Bedi was scathing in his criticism. But when former UCBSA supremo Ali Bacher said that he didn't find Murali to be a chucker, Bedi found a supporter in former Australian captain and legendary coach Bob Simpson. "You can't bowl a doosra if you don't straighten your arms and that's chucking," both Bedi and Simpson said in unison. Asked about how they got clarified by International Cricket Council (ICC), Bedi was curt, "When they are taken in the laboratory, you find them within the permissible limit but not during the matches. It's all useless to say about 18 degrees. Their arms bend at 35 to 40 degrees." However another former captain Kapil Dev begged to differ on the chucking issue. "I don't blame Murali for this problem. The problem is with the authorities who allow people to do wrong things." http://www.indianexpress.com/news/murali-didnt-take-800-wickets-those-were-runouts-bedi/725093/

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The more he speaks about Murali' date= more respect he loses. Wont be surprised if Murali hits back at Bedi now and in the language that will hurt Bedi the most.
Nope. There is no more effin respect to lose for this guy. He ran out of all respect long back.
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He might be a senile old man, but in this case, I agree with him. Murali Chucks and ICC granted him the permission by adding 15 degs and I think with that curtain, he has been chucking even more blatantly. I cringe when I see Murali bowl.

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To actually ignore some of the most serious crimes like match-fixing, the spot-fixing, the pitch tampering, ball tampering and pick on someone with a birth deformity, based on some completely antiquated and incomplete law is comical at its best and moronic at its worst. Bedi picks on Murali not because he’s concerned with the integrity of the game, but because has an obvious bias and prejudice against him. What is the reason for that prejudice, no one knows, but the more he keeps blabbering like this, the more he will condemn himself to irrelevancy. To me at least, the combination of an incredible cricketing career and a spotless disciplinary record makes Murali easy one of the BEST cricketers of our generation, if not the best ever. And yet, every now and then, he has to endure this classless tirade from this one guy who has obviously completely lost his marbles.

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To actually ignore some of the most serious crimes like match-fixing' date=' the spot-fixing, the pitch tampering, ball tampering and pick on someone with a[b'] birth deformity, based on some completely antiquated and incomplete law is comical at its best and moronic at its worst. Bedi picks on Murali not because he’s concerned with the integrity of the game, but because has an obvious bias and prejudice against him. What is the reason for that prejudice, no one knows, but the more he keeps blabbering like this, the more he will condemn himself to irrelevancy. To me at least, the combination of an incredible cricketing career and a spotless disciplinary record makes Murali easy one of the BEST cricketers of our generation, if not the best ever. And yet, every now and then, he has to endure this classless tirade from this one guy who has obviously completely lost his marbles.
what is this birth deformity everyone keeps talking about, if he did indeed have a 'deformity' then he would be playing 'special' leagues cricket, not international cricket. the only birth deformity murali has is his face.
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what is this birth deformity everyone keeps talking about' date=' if he did indeed have a 'deformity' then he would be playing 'special' leagues cricket, not international cricket. the only birth deformity murali has is his face.[/quote'] The unfailing regularity with which you load your posts with an equal proportion of both stupidity and insensitivity never ceases to amaze me. It is a rare but not-so-wonderful talent that you have. :hail:

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